KDE in Gentoo

[ky_hanna]

I've successfully installed Gentoo on my system. (P3, Nvidia TNT2 M64, 128 MB RAM, Creative Soundblaster Live, in case you needed to know). Anyways, I emerged Xorg successfully and was going to emerge KDE, but, when I try, it attempts to contact a site to download the files, when, there is no internet on the actual machine :P I was wondering how I would switch the source for the installation from the site to the Gentoo packages cd, which I already have. Any input is appreciated.

[michaeln]

From typing emerge --help

--usepkg (-k short option)
Tell emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are
available, thus possibly avoiding some time-consuming compiles.
This option is useful for CD installs; you can export
PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have
emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to satisfy
dependencies.